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August Sander

1876 - 1964

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August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Sander has received more than 250,796 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. August Sander is the 24th most popular photographer, the 1,679th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,499th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Photographer.

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  • 250k

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  • 58.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, August Sander ranks 24 out of 148. Before him are Brassaï, Annie Leibovitz, Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Josef Koudelka, and Richard Avedon. After him are Yousuf Karsh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, Irving Penn, Berenice Abbott, and Jan Saudek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, August Sander ranks 50. Before him are Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Ziya Gökalp, Ivan Bilibin, Fevzi Çakmak, Tomáš Baťa, and Anna de Noailles. After him are Nicola Romeo, Natalie Clifford Barney, Hideyo Noguchi, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Henri de Baillet-Latour, and Joseph Meister. Among people deceased in 1964, August Sander ranks 46. Before him are Pedro Petrone, Cole Porter, Sergey Biryuzov, J. B. S. Haldane, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, and Werner Kempf. After him are Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Mikhail Larionov, Bechara El Khoury, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Vladko Maček, and Heinz Jost.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Sander ranks 1,679 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Fassbender (1977), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), Edmund Landau (1877), Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), and Otto Sander (1941). After him are Hemma (800), Hans Langsdorff (1894), Ferdinand Ries (1784), George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1624), Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806), and Princess Alexandrine of Baden (1820).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, August Sander ranks 5. Before him are Helmut Newton (1920), Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Gunter Sachs (1932), and Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856). After him are Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Andreas Gursky (1955), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Erich Salomon (1886), Gisèle Freund (1908), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), and Lothar Wolleh (1930).

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